More than 70 years have passed since the death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in April 1945, but the public controversy surrounding our 32nd president continues to intensify.

Roosevelt's critics claim that if he had utilized the full extent of U.S. power, many European Jews could have been saved from the mass murders carried out by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during the Holocaust.

FDR's supporters remind us that America was rife with anti-Semitism even during World War II, and while the president in 1942 was fully aware of Hitler's genocidal war against the Jews, Roosevelt believed the best way to save Jewish lives was a laser-like maximum military effort that would force Germany's "unconditional surrender" as quickly as possible.

Last July the Pokmon Go electronic game was introduced and it has quickly become a phenomenon attracting millions of players throughout the world.

The game features animal-like digital creatures that "appear" in actual locations and are visible on a person's smartphone. Thanks to the technical skill of the game's creators, Pokmon Go's imaginative images, some of them monsters, can be found in a growing number of places including beaches, parks, playgrounds, swimming pools, hospitals, farm fields, city streets, schools, houses of worship and I even saw a game aficionado in a shopping mall men's room.

The object of Pokmon Go requires players to be physically present at one of those sites who then make electronic attempts to capture the targeted image on a smartphone. It is a digital variation of the beloved childhood game of "hide and seek."

​(RNS) The words, “Let us now praise famous men,” are found in the Wisdom of Sirach, an ancient Jewish ethical text, and they then appear about 21 centuries later as the title of James Agee’s well-known 1941 book.

Many Americans are familiar with the significant interreligious contributions of “famous” spiritual leaders of the past whom we “praise,” including Popes John XXIII and John Paul II, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., the Rev. Reinhold Niebuhr and Greek Orthodox Archbishop Iakavos — all of whom built human bridges of mutual understanding and respect between Christians and Jews.